Topic 03

Inclusive Recruitment

You can't build an inclusive culture if you keep hiring the same people.

About this topic

Inclusive recruitment is the entry point for everything else. You cannot build a culture that works for everyone if the people you hire, the processes you use, and the experience you create during hiring are reproducing the same patterns you’re trying to change.

This session takes a practical, unsentimental look at where bias lives in recruitment — not the obvious kind that most people know to avoid, but the structural and behavioural patterns that most organisations don’t notice until the problem has already compounded.

What this session covers

From the language in your job descriptions to the dynamics of your interview panels, from the questions you’re legally required not to ask (and the ones you’re inadvertently implying), to the experience that awaits someone on their first day — this session maps the full recruitment journey and identifies the specific points where inclusion either happens or it doesn’t.

Who this is for

Talent acquisition teams, hiring managers, HR business partners, and leadership teams who are serious about improving their diversity data and want to understand the recruitment-level interventions that actually make a difference. Also highly effective for organisations preparing for demographic shifts in their talent markets.